He’d half meant to speak but those eyes had altered the world forever in the space of a heartbeat.
CORMAC MCCARTHYThey spoke less and less between them until at last they were silent altogether as is often the way with travelers approaching the end of a journey.
More Cormac McCarthy Quotes
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The road has its own reasons and no two travelers will have the same understanding of those reasons. If indeed they come to an understanding of them at all.
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Somewhere in the world is the most invincible man. Just as somewhere is the most vulnerable.
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He knew only that his child was his warrant. He said: If he is not the word of God God never spoke.
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Anything that doesn’t take years of your life and drive you to suicide hardly seems worth doing.
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One of the things you realize about gettin older is that not everybody is goin to get older with you.
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Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real.
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Keep a little fire burning; however small, however hidden.
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But there are no absolutes in human misery and things can always get worse.
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If you think about some of the things that are being talked about by thoughtful, intelligent scientists, you realize that in 100 years the human race won’t even be recognizable.
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There is no later. This is later.
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Long before morning I knew that what I was seeking to discover was a thing I’d always known. That all courage was a form of constancy. That it is always himself that the coward abandoned first. After this all other betrayals come easily.
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You have to carry the fire.” I don’t know how to.” Yes, you do.” Is the fire real? The fire?” Yes it is.” Where is it? I don’t know where it is.” Yes you do. It’s inside you. It always was there. I can see it.
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Best way to live in California is to be from somewheres else.
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It is supposed to true that those who do not know history are condemned to repeat it. I don’t believe knowing can save us. What is constant in history is greed and foolishness and love of blood.
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You forget what you want to remember, and you remember what you want to forget.
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